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Anthony Clifford "A. C." Grayling (; born 3 April 1949) is a British philosopher. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. Grayling is the author of about 30 books on philosophy, including ''The Refutation of Scepticism'' (1985), ''The Future of Moral Values'' (1997), ''The Meaning of Things'' (2001), ''The Good Book'' (2011), and ''The God Argument'' (2013). He is a Trustee of the London Library, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.〔(Biography ), acgrayling.com, accessed 10 June 2011.〕 He is a director and contributor at ''Prospect Magazine'', as well as a Vice President of the British Humanist Association. His main academic interests lie in epistemology, metaphysics and philosophical logic.〔 He has described himself as "a man of the left" and is associated in Britain with the new atheism movement,〔Catto, Rebecca and Eccles, Jane. ("Beyond Grayling, Dawkins and Hitchens, a new kind of British atheism" ), ''The Guardian'', 14 April 2011〕 and is sometimes described as the 'Fifth Horseman of New Atheism'.〔Adams, Joseph. May 2013. http://www.onreligion.co.uk/the-fifth-horseman-of-new-atheism/〕 He appears in the British media discussing philosophy. ==Early life and education== Grayling was born and raised in Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), within the British expatriate community, while his father worked for the Standard Chartered Bank.〔Treharne, Rhys. ("The Interview: A. C. Grayling" ), ''Varsity'', 19 October 2010. *Burrell, Ian. ("AC Grayling: University challenged" ), ''The Independent'', 22 June 2011.〕 He attended several boarding schools, including Falcon College in Zimbabwe, from which he ran away after being caned.〔 His first exposure to philosophical writing was at the age of twelve, when he found an English translation of the ''Charmides'', one of Plato's dialogues, in a local library.〔 At age fourteen, he read G. H. Lewes's ''Biographical History of Philosophy'' (1846), which confirmed his ambition to study philosophy; he said it "superinduced order on the random reading that had preceded it, and settled my vocation."〔Grayling, A.C. ''Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God''. University of Oxford Press, 2002, p. 224.〕 Grayling was the third sibling. When he was 19 years old, his elder sister Jennifer was murdered in Johannesburg. She had been born with brain damage, and after brain surgery to alleviate it at the age of 20 had experienced personality problems that led to several inappropriate affairs and a premature marriage. She was found dead in a river shortly after the marriage; she had been stabbed. When her parents went to identify her, her mother—already ill—had a heart attack and died. Grayling said he dealt with his grief by becoming a workaholic.〔Long, Camilla. "AC Grayling: Is it safe to come out now?", ''The Sunday Times'', 12 June 2011.〕 After moving to England in his teens, he spent three years at the University of Sussex, but said that although he applauded their intention to educate generalists, he wished to be a scholar, so in addition to his BA from Sussex, he also completed one in philosophy as a University of London external student.〔Lacey, Hester. ("The Inventory: Anthony Grayling" ), ''The Financial Times'', 10 June 2011.〕 He went on to obtain an MA from Sussex, then attended Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was taught by P. F. Strawson and A. J. Ayer, obtaining his doctorate in 1981 for a thesis on "Epistemological Scepticism and Transcendental Arguments."〔For his teachers, see ''Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God'', p. 226. *For the thesis, see Grayling, A.C. ''Epistemological Scepticism and Transcendental Arguments''. Oxford University Press, 1983.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A. C. Grayling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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